Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-02-11

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drop for q year. Isl
The presence Of President Cleveland and
his wife at the Baltimore charity ball in
creased the receipts BY 81 OO.
Vaughan & Bros. iron merchants Of ST.
John. n. b, who arc also largely interest
ed in shipping, have made an assignment.
The Cologne Gazette, In an article head.
| says: France is preparing to form in the
| shortest time possible, in the event Of .
war in the spring. the strategical line which
she delayed forming in 1870. The govern
ment will take the necessary steps to pre-
vent Alsace-L Lorraine from being overrun
by French troops Immediately after a dec
laration Of war. E.<<> fss p;
The senate bill authorizing the secretary
OF war to adjust and settle the account for
| arms, ammunition and accounterments
between the United States and Montana
the house bill authorizing the secretary OF
war to credit the Territory OF Dakota with
$27, $50 for ordnance and ordnance stores
issued to that territory.
| A Paris dispatch to Pasther Lloyd says
| that President Grevy and Premier Goblet
are making superhuman efforts to prevent
| the outbreak OF war.
Rev. Mathew Harkins. OF St. James
church, Boston, was appointed bishop 81
Providence R. l., by the pope.
| The president has vetoed a bill granting
q pension to Mrs. Margaret Dunlap oil
Missouri on the ground that the death OF
the soldier Tor which the pension was Civ
en- was not caused in the line of duty, but
in q quarrel with a comrade.
! A gentleman with close relations to the
/ o1 sokw hat II
Pendleton was sent for, and that he does
not know for what purpose. This fast
strengthens the opinion in political circles
that MIR. Pendleton will be rendered a cab
met posi- ton.
In the senate Mr.. Spooner offered an
amendment to the sundry civil bill appro-
priating $50, 900 for the public building at
La Crosse in addition to $4,000 hereto.
fore appropriated. 1t was agreed to.
A member of the Dufferin Guards Eighty
eighth regilnent), volunteer military
organization OF Canada. is now here, and
said regarding the preparations being
ton OF war being declared: A few days
ago every pensioner OF the imperial service
was ordered under arms to be ready to
move to the front at q moments notice.
In lower Canada there are enough men to
furnish a standing army of five thousand
men at an hours notice. Many OF the
veterans are drilling. The excitement is
great, and through all of the lower pen
insula the militia is getting in readiness
| for active service.
F. j. Ford was placed on trial in New
Orleans for killing Capt. kirkpatrick for
alleged improper intimacy with Fords
wife. Ford pleaded guilty to avoid the
revelation discreditable to his wife that
would come out should he make a defense.
Thomas Stevens, the young 'cyclist made
famous by his successful tour around the
world on his favorite Columbia wheel, ar
rived in Minneapolis and was given ban
quet.
A collision of a west bound freight in the
grade occurred at Eaco, Utah. Lewis Be-
mis-, engineer OF the freight, was killed. He
might have saved himself, bnt he stood by
his lever.
Postmasters commissioned: Minnesota:
Le sueur, H. J. Dane; Partell, G. Mills;
Woodbury., II. Mamie. Wisconsin: Stur
geon Bay,G. w. Alien; Superior, j. A. Bar
don.
Secretary Bayard is said to have ordered
the British schooners seized in Alaska tc
be given up.
Advices received at the general Offices OF
the Northern Pacific do not in any way
confirm the reports OF heavy losses among
the cattle on the Montana ranges.
Rev. DR.. McGlynn has commenced his re.
ply to Rome He did this at the sugges.
ton OF Cardinal Gibbons. 1t seems to be
understood that DR.. McGlynn will not go
to Rome.
Peter Mack, Hugh Trainor and James
Smith Jr., while walking on the Boston &
Providence railroad track, at Hyde PARK,
Mass, were struck by a train and killed.
Charles Ray, a Desperate, shot and kill.
ed K. II. Johnson postmaster at Cancan,
Tex, who had q warrant for Rays arrest.
Before dying Johnson shot Ray in the face
with bird shot. Ray was caught and will
probably be lynched.
James r. Cumming, OF the law firm> OF
Vanderpool, Green & Cumming New York
referring to the marriage by proxy Of Spies
and Miss Van Zandt in Chicago, said it was
nonsense. Others said that while a mar
rage was a civil contract, it did not be.
come OF effect until consummated and that
it was unlikely that the right to consunl-
mate could be delegated to another.
Freight handling at New York is about
at a standstill. The strikers are becoming
violent.
1t looks very much as if the $4,000 re.
| ward offered for the man who tried to blow
up the steamer Guayandotte will never be
claimed. for although detectives are search.
ing for him, the clues are so slight that
they promise little hope Of his capture.
The department OF the interior has asked
congress for an. appropriation OF $25, 900
for salaries, expenses, etc., Of special
agents for locating Indians upon lands in
severalty under the act recently passed. in
| which no appropria tion was made for this
purpose.
The house committee on territories ia.
vorably considered the bill for the organi-
cation OF the Territory OF Alaska.
Hugh Price OF Wisconsin, who was elected
to fill the vacancy caused by the death OF
his father in the present congress-, took the
oath and assumed his seat. He was con.
Quoted to the bar OF the house by Congress-
man Guenther, who afterward intro.
duced hun to his fellow members. He was
assigned to the seat which his father occu.
pied.
/ The Iowa men in congress are determin.
ed to push the matter of the forfeiture of
the lands along the lines of the Sioux City
& St. Paul and Chicago, Milwaukee {, ST..
Paul railroads in Iowa as far as possible
this session, if they cannot pass the bill.
There is absolutely not q particle OF
truth in the report that Miss Rose Eliza.
beth Cleveland is going to marry young
| Washington preacher.
President Cleveland is very fond OF stew
ed terrapins. and is ready to eat OF that
dish at any time. .,.< 10.
The entire business portion of Minooka,
Ill.,, was burned. All the stores ON the
main street, fourteen in number, were de-
stroyed. Loss, $4,000; Insurance., So.
900.
The British forces captured the entire
camp of the insurgent Boshevay. who
managed to escape. King Thebaw has is